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Thanks, the Valspar situation sounds like a nightmare! Fingers crossed it ought to work then...

The previous owner of our house had a wood burner and used to burn all sorts of rubbish, meaning there is a bad tar/smoke smell to the chimney breast. We had the chimney swept and replaced the woodburner with a gas fire, skimmed and painted the room. Initially the smell disappeared however it...

John D - do you think that its bad enough to cause the 3inches of standing water we have found? We are intending to sort the drainage out as part of the driveway being done, and we have cctv'd the drains so in theory they aren't leaking...

Sorry that should say: the road gully outside and confirmed there is a problem with it (which definitely won't have anything to do with our issues so they say... i'm not convinced...)

Thanks all, I'm thinking its maybe a combination of factors relating to the rainfall - poor drainage on our drive that slopes towards us, maybe another cracked gully, high water table/clay soil, and the council have just checked the road gully outside and confirmed there is a problem with it...

Thanks all for your responses. Causing more problems than I cure (eg damp walls, subsidence) is my worry really! The more I hear the more I think concrete isn't the answer. We can put in more airbricks but only to the side as the back is blocked by and extension, the side has concrete floor. A...

No, not consulted any 'professionals'as yet, just talking to friends and family and trying to do a bit of research but so many different opinions, its a minefield. Its just something I don't want to have to be worrying about in prolonged rain (like at the moment) and something that will make it...

Timbers look ok though have a moisure meter on order to check the levels. To my (untrained) eye the joists and floorboards look pretty good, possibly newish so could be that the original floor has been replaced at some point.

I'm not really sure what issues it is causing (yet). Possibly none. Not convinced the ventilatiom is good enough as the extension on the back blocks the old airbricks. I have been told by a neighbour that the previous owner used to pump it out, so assume it can get high enough to worry about...

We live in a typical 1930s house with suspended timber floors. Underneath the floor we have discovered several inches of water that comes and (slowly) goes after heavy rain. The void is approx 1m at its deepest and ventilation is poor due to a rear extension. Done some checking of...

Thanks for this, may have to look at installing something. Need to know how bad it gets really so will.monitor it, its about 3 inches at its deepest after around a days worth of heavy rain, which seems a lot to say how dry it has been recently.

We've recently discovered approx 2 inches of water under our suspended wooden floor, following the very heavy rain a few weeks ago. (Lived there only 15 months, 1930s detached). We vax'd out most of it and it has all since disappated into the ground. We've had a broken rainwater gully fixed...